1979 in jazz

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1979 in jazz
1979 in jazz
	Lionel Hampton, Wild Bill Davis, Chubby Jackson at the 1979 North Sea Jazz Festival.
Decade	1970s in jazz
Music	1979 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
See also	1978 in jazz – 1980 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1979.